Each side reserved with a purple-edged lobed panel painted with 'contour' chinoiserie figures flanked by flowers and with birds and insects in flight overhead, below swags of indianische Blumen reserved on the yellow ground, the sides reserved with three pear-shaped panels painted with indianische Blumen, including a bird on the two lower panels, and one and three trailing flowers, the neck painted with scattered indianische Blumen, the domed cover similarly decorated, with a gilt finial, 51cm high, AR monogram in underglaze-blue (drilled through base, finial restuck, restored rim chip to cover) (2)
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Provenance:S. Carter Burden, sold Sotheby Parke Bernet, 26 February 1975, lot 253 (part);The Christener Collection, Dallas, sold Christie's New York, 8 June 1979, lot 124 (part);Anon. sale, Christie's Paris, 16-17 April 2008, lot 261A similarly decorated double-gourd vase (41cm high) formerly in the Dresden porcelain collection may have formed part of a garniture together with the present lot (A. Loesch, Das Porzellankabinett im Haismannsturm des Dresdner Resizdenzschlosses (2019), no. 47). A pair of similarly-decorated ovoid vases and covers (47cm high) is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (A.L. den Blaauwen, Meissen Porcelain in the Rijksmuseum (2000), no. 197). The present lot was sold from the Christener Collection together with two double-gourd vases nearly identical in decoration to the Dresden example (missing since 1945); the main difference is that they are raised on (differently gilded) footrims and so probably belong to another garniture. For a discussion of the style of 'contour' chinoiserie decoration, see Den Blaauwen, op. cit., p. 259.